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Rootborn Defenses

plstThe List#MM3-21common
{2}{W}
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Card details
Artist
Mark Zug
Frame
2015
Language
EN
Border
black
Security stamp
Format legality
AlchemyNot legal
BrawlNot legal
CommanderLegal
DuelLegal
Future StandardNot legal
GladiatorNot legal
HistoricNot legal
LegacyLegal
ModernLegal
OathbreakerLegal
Old SchoolNot legal
PauperLegal
Pauper CommanderLegal
PennyNot legal
PioneerLegal
PreDHNot legal
PremodernNot legal
StandardNot legal
Standard BrawlNot legal
TimelessNot legal
Tiny LeadersLegal
VintageLegal
Oracle text

Instant

Populate. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. (To populate, create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)

Abilities
SpellPopulate. Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. (To populate, create a token that's a copy of a creature token you control.)
Plays as
Token CopyProtection SpellPopulate
Flavor & art
Illustrated by
Mark Zug
Rulings
  • WotCJan 12, 2024

    Any enters-the-battlefield abilities of the copied token will trigger when the new token enters the battlefield. Any "as [this creature] enters the battlefield" or "[this creature] enters the battlefield with" abilities of the copied token will also work.

  • WotCJan 12, 2024

    If you choose to copy a creature token that's a copy of another creature, the new creature token will copy the characteristics of whatever the original token is copying.

  • WotCJan 12, 2024

    If you control no creature tokens when you populate, nothing will happen.

  • WotCJan 12, 2024

    Populate doesn't target the creature token you're copying. You choose that creature token as you're taking the populate action. You can choose any creature token you control. If a spell or ability causes you to create a creature token and then instructs you to populate, you may choose to copy the token you just created, or you may choose to copy another creature token you control.

  • WotCJan 12, 2024

    The new creature token copies the characteristics of the original token as stated by the effect that created the original token.

  • WotCJan 12, 2024

    The new token doesn't copy whether the original token is tapped or untapped, whether it has any counters on it or Auras and Equipment attached to it, or any noncopy effects that have changed its power, toughness, color, and so on.

  • WotCMar 14, 2017

    Rootborn Defenses affects only creatures you control after populating at the time it resolves. The creature token you create will gain indestructible, but creatures you begin to control later in the turn will not.